10-letter words containing p, o, e, t, i
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- field stop — the aperture that limits the field of view of a lens or system of lenses.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- flex point — a point on a curve at which the curvature changes from convex to concave or vice versa.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- genotyping — Present participle of genotype.
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- geotropism — oriented growth with respect to the force of gravity.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- guideposts — Plural form of guidepost.
- hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hepatolith — A gallstone in the biliary duct of the liver.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hilltopper — the top or summit of a hill.
- hip pocket — back pocket of trousers
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- homoleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having a single type of ligand.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hot-dipped — coated by being dipped into molten tin or zinc.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotized — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotizer — One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
- hypnotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypnotize.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.